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Speed Reading for Business Efficacy
Overview
The knowledge-based economy of this new era demands
the individual to allocate more time and resources to
learn new things and learn them fast. What has been
learnt becomes outdated equally fast as well. There
is a need for the student of today to develop self-fulfilling
learning skills, which will propel him into this new
era. The key to success lies very much on the ability
of the individual student to learn the information fast.
This program gives the student an overview of how
to improve reading speed and comprehension. If their
reading speed is doubled, half of every hour spent reading
their textbook could be more profitably used for important
revision and other activities. It is a fact that students
who read faster tend to comprehend better.
They will also realize that how their brain perceives
information and processes it. By understanding this,
they are better able to focus their attention to what
is being read and comprehend it better.
This program is a self-fulfilling one. The success
rate is almost guaranteed with a little practice –
the right attitude and confidence.
Course Outline
- Fundamentals of Speed Reading
- overview of the concept and practices of Speed Reading
- Competency based – Pre-Test
- A short test to find out how much the participants
know about speed reading
- Finding out how you read
- Identifying the reading speed of individual participants.
- Getting participants to peg their reading speed
and improving it
- Understanding mind’s perception
- How the brain and the mind perceives and processes
information
- The relevance of mind’s perception to speed
reading – a practical insight
- Eye Exercise
- A practice to help improve the peripheral vision
of the eye to capture more information
- Understanding how your brain perceive information
- A video show on how the brain processes information
viewed through the eye
- Discovering your individual learning pattern
- Identifying the individual participant’s own
learning pattern – a quiz
- Using “finger/pointer” technique of
speed reading
- Practice on a technique of speed reading with materials
- Training the eye to follow words quickly
- Improving vocabulary by guessing words
- A quiz
- Using Skimming and Scanning to glean information
- another technique of speed reading – with
practice
- Learning how to remember what you have read
- memory skill on how to remember what we have read
- Creating your very own memory recall technique
- Practicing your memory recall technique with your
reading
- Getting participants to practice the techniques
taught
- Increasing reading speed to 1000 words per minute
- more articles to practice
- Using “Peripheral vision” technique
to speed read
- Another technique on speed reading
- Learning “adaptive reading” for reports
and technical materials
- Learning to idea scan what has been read
- introduce to the participants on the PQRIT system
to scan for vital information
- Practicing the techniques taught
- Competency based – Post Test
Note: As this workshop objective is to increase your
reading speed will excellent comprehension and concentration,
you can be rest assured that you will have many articles
to read to give you the necessary practice. The materials
chosen to help you to practice are taken from different
sources to give variety and to vary the reading speed
of the participants.
Methodology
This is a highly interactive and participative workshop
and participants will be required to engage in
activities that test their speed and comprehension.
There will be a pre-test and post-test given to identify
the level of competency gained by the participants.
Duration
1 day
Trainer
Dr Daniel Theyagu
Course Fees
$2,300 (up to 20 participants)
Price includes training materials and CD Rom for each
participant
Price does not include venue and tea-break to be provided
by organization
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